5.01. organizing models and how-tos

Road Test: NY Activists Create a New Poor People's Campaign

Bushwick, NY, February 2008. A protest against a negligent landlord. PHOTO: Make the Road New York
Authors: Melony Swasey

Summary:

Make the Road New York is admired for its consensus-based, collective decision-making, an intensive process that builds strong, trusting relationships, leadership, and shared agreement among members.

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Black and Brown Together

Jerry Ball, a poultry plant worker at Pico Foods, and union steward for the Laborer's Union. PHOTO: © David Bacon 2008
Authors: David Bacon

Summary:

In Mississippi, African American political leaders and immigrant organizers favor a different calculation: Blacks plus immigrants plus unions equals power.

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Are Immigrants and Refugees People of Color?

Authors: Rinku Sen

Summary:

Immigration policy is race policy in this country, as it has been since the genocide of its native people.

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Remembering Tony Henry And a Generation of Leaders

Tony Henry, 1989. PHOTO: American Friends Service Committee
Authors: Keith Harvey

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We need to remember that the dream was not just Dr. King's, but belongs to the many, many people who gave their time, their energy -- even their lives -- to achieve this powerful vision.

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How to Wage Peace & Justice - Tools for Activists

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How to Wage Peace & Justice - Tools for Activists

How to Wage Peace & Justice - Tools for Activists:
Peacework Magazine's Annotated Guide to Organizing Resources

First compiled especially to accompany the How to Wage Peace and Justice Peacework Issue, March, 2008.

Sections in this How-to-Organize Resource Include:

One Way to Live a Pacifist Life: After 80 Years of Activism - WWII CO Ralph DiGia Dies

Ralph DiGia promoting war tax resistance on tax day, April 17, 2007. photo: Ed Hedemann
Authors: Judith Mahoney Pasternak

Summary:

The US Attorney referred him to the War Resisters League. He never left.

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How to Undo the Silence: Six Tools for Social Change Writing

Silence=Death, photo: Malik Williams
Authors: Louise Dunlap

Summary:

I feel like a leader because I know I can say what I mean.

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How to Avoid Destroying Our Movements: On the death of SDS, Nonviolence, and the War

Meaghan Linick (right) of Newschool SDS, Iraq Moratorium, 2007. Photo Thomas Good/Next Left Notes
Authors: Mark Rudd

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We (the Weather Underground) did the FBI's work for them.

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How Student Radicals Can Be Relevant: Athens, OH SDS Scores Victories -- Sealed with a Pinkie-Swear

Demonstrators at Indonesian Consulate, NY Photo: www.etan.org
Authors: Joshua Kahn Russell

Summary:

Reaching beyond the usual suspects.

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How to Mobilize Students to Ally for Safe Schools: The Growth of Gay Straight Alliances

GLSEN members, Philadelphia. Photo: Conrad Ventur
Authors: Daryl Presgraves

Summary:

"You're gay and I'm straight, so let's call it a Gay-Straight Alliance."

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